Psychotic type reaction from Plaquenil?

It seems I had a rare adverse reaction to the medicine that affected my CNS. Not much known about why - it has a small mention in the drugs physicians perscribing info. My dr took me off the med two days ago and most of the symptoms are subsiding. Not sure what the next drug the dr will try but we are waiting for this to get out of my system. Very scary experience.

Plaquenil initially affected my cns (dizziness). So severe in fact, I remember not being able to drive into work one day.

The next couple of weeks, i noticed i was entering unusual states of fear and rage. I heard the med affected vision, and could cause nausea, and I had not heard of any other side effect. So I attributed this to normal stress in my life...

Then it got even worse. An legal incident occurred as a result. I am a scientist and never had any issues like this before in my life. Yet now, I will likely lose my job, as my background has been tainted and cannot be repaired for a time of two years.

Fortunately, no one was hurt or injured (other than myself), and when I stopped the meds, I was immediately ok again.

I wish someone had warned me to lookout for this side effect. It never even occurred to me that this medicine could have an effect like this on me.

I asked for drug counseling from the pharmacist about what this drug did, when I first picked it up.. he knew nothing about it. He told me he never had prescribed it before, and proceeded to give me the pharmacology pamphlet (which was basically a white-paper w/ the chemical makeup of the drug)... which without a pharm-d, was meaningless to me.

Please be careful.